Gross domestic problem :
Fioramonti, Lorenzo.
Gross domestic problem : the politics behind the world's most powerful number / Lorenzo Fioramonti. - London ; Zed Books, c2013. - viii, 200p. ; 22 cm. - Economic controversies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
The world's most powerful number -- The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis -- The Frankenstein syndrome -- The global quest to dethrone GDP -- Change from below -- Supremacy and resistance.
Gross domestic product is one of the best known and most powerful statistics in the contemporary world. It drives government policy on a variety of vital areas, from health to education. Yet perhaps for the first time since its invention in the 1930s, a wide range of people regard this icon of economic growth as a problem. Gross Domestic Problem unpacks GDP, what it measures, what it doesn't, and why, and reveals the powerful politics that have allowed it to dominate today's economies.
9781780322728
2013370477
Gross domestic product.
Gross domestic product--Political aspects.
HC79.I5 / .F517 2013
Gross domestic problem : the politics behind the world's most powerful number / Lorenzo Fioramonti. - London ; Zed Books, c2013. - viii, 200p. ; 22 cm. - Economic controversies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
The world's most powerful number -- The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis -- The Frankenstein syndrome -- The global quest to dethrone GDP -- Change from below -- Supremacy and resistance.
Gross domestic product is one of the best known and most powerful statistics in the contemporary world. It drives government policy on a variety of vital areas, from health to education. Yet perhaps for the first time since its invention in the 1930s, a wide range of people regard this icon of economic growth as a problem. Gross Domestic Problem unpacks GDP, what it measures, what it doesn't, and why, and reveals the powerful politics that have allowed it to dominate today's economies.
9781780322728
2013370477
Gross domestic product.
Gross domestic product--Political aspects.
HC79.I5 / .F517 2013